///Intimacy Coordinator - Out on Valentines Day 2022///

Straight White Teeth is the tenacious songwriting project of musician and writer Patrick McGuire. In recent years McGuire has shifted from sardonic synth pop towards a preference for organic, stripped down instrumentation and understated lo-fi folk. Intimacy Coordinator, Straight White Teeth’s forthcoming third full-length record, leverages insightful piano, baroque finger-plucked acoustic guitars, and gauzy, despair-tinged vocals to craft melancholic songs that chronicle the sudden end of McGuire’s seven-year relationship. Written and recorded over a tumultuous two-month period shortly before, during, and after McGuire’s breakup in the spring of 2021, Intimacy Coordinator revels in the sturdy comfort of long-term love, poetically rages at its irreversible unraveling, and deeply mourns its absence. 

“If this album sounds rushed, that’s because it was,” says McGuire. “These songs were too painful to work on for too long. I’ve never wanted to be finished with something more in my life.”

Featuring the most intimate original music of McGuire’s career along with two haunting covers that were significant to the couple, Intimacy Coordinator is an affecting musical meditation on the dramatic end of a shared life.

Cute Cold Creeps

Out 11/4 on HunnyHawk Records www.straightwhiteteethmusic.com

Don't Block My Light

Deepfake

To The Car (I Run)

Everyone You Love

Vulnerable And Loud

Come Over To My House

Summer Backseat

04 See Yourself Happy

03 Last One Out

02 I Think I'm Gonna Love You For A Really Long Time

01 Witch

Worker

Mezzanine

A new single from Straight White Teeth
Produced by Randall Kent

Met a holy ghost
I even shook its hand
We built a bridge to the coast
Over desert sand
Underneath the waves
Hung a midnight grace
We were lost in a dream
Mercy was currency

Oh, oh oh.........

It it quiet here
We hardly speak 
And in the dark I can see it
A shadow doused in flames

Oh, oh oh......

A thousand years going by in just one day
We run through fields blindfolded
We feel nothing 

Oh, oh oh....... 

A Shadow Doused In Flames

///// A new single from Straight White Teeth. Produced by White Flashes /////

Hurricane [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Hot Blood Shaking in a Cage

Lifetime

"Illuminate and Burn" is the first single of Physical Truth, a collection of Straight White Teeth songs to be released throughout 2018

Illuminate and Burn

#2 in the Physical Truth Series

We clicked
There’s not much to say
A blending of lights
With each passing day

A cult
A coming of age
We sharpened our knives
Accepted our fate

Let me know if I’m coming too close
I know that love has a tendency to choke
Now that good has found us here let’s wait
Honey let’s wait 

A gun
Firing off a blank
We sipped on the tides
The months felt like days

Now the night
Washes its face
With the dreaming of men
And sits on the bed 

And thinks it’s been a while
Since I’ve seen my daughter smile
I should go and see what’s going on

Death
Cuts up the rug
At the party till dawn
And falls asleep on the lawn

Now there’s blood
Spelling out our names
Down in a book 
At the cemetery gates 
We can’t run from the hand of time 
So honey let’s wait

The Night Washes Its Face

From the Physical Truth series

The light is falling with the waves like a grudge to bear
It lingers for a while
And when you hold it you feel brave even though you're not
For you are naive 
Love is a weapon here in the hands of thieves 
Who couldn't find their own 
I miss the mornings when we'd wake with a physical truth
To face our troubled days

What do you love more?
The thought of sitting still or leaving through the courtyard
What is there left to do
But climb the coast with credit cards and sleep in empty houses

I've got a feeling death is real but I can't believe
That everything just ends
But I take comfort in the thought that one day we'll stop
Cycling through the age

What do you love more?
The thought of sitting still or leaving through the courtyard
What is there left to do
But climb the coast with credit cards and sleep in empty houses

Empty Houses

Flowering

Golden Retriever

A song from the debut album by Charming Pet GIFs by Straight White Teeth

We Should Remember This

The first single for Straight White Teeth's debut album, Charming Pet GIFs. Out 10/11/2019

Bespoke

Straight White Teeth is the sprawling alternative music project of Patrick McGuire. Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2015 after the breakup of McGuire’s band Flashbulb Fires, Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. With a wide collection of mostly self-produced and self-released songs that have only grown in output in recent years, Straight White Teeth is resigned to, and perhaps even a bit excited about, not knowing exactly what it is, where it's headed, and what it’s capable of as a vehicle for poetic music-making. 

In 2015, Straight White Teeth shared two EPs: Medicine Sword, the project’s debut, and A Merciful, a dark and affecting collection of demos McGuire began writing in 2011. “Lifetime,” a synth-driven Straight White Teeth single released in 2017, charted up at #6 on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic radio show in Los Angeles and helped earn the project a small but avid following. “Flowering” was shared a year later, a sparse and gorgeous track featuring only McGuire’s haunting baritone alongside finger-plucked acoustic accompaniment.

After multiple moves across the US taking the multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia to rural New Mexico, the project’s debut album was released in 2019. Charming Pet Gifs is a flawed but memorable record exploring McGuire’s deep apprehension of social media and an interest in singularity bordering between fascination and fear. Two albums featuring minimal, organic instrumentation were released in 2021 and 2022, Costilla and Intimacy Coordinator, as well as music released by the Artlist Originals label, which has paired Straight White Teeth’s music with countless independent vlogs, podcasts, and other media.

Straight White Teeth released one EP in early 2023, and listeners can expect the project’s fourth LP later this year along with live performances in McGuire’s current home of Kansas City and throughout the United States.

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